Not a good few days for Bush

This has not been a good few days for the Bush Administration. The selective leak story is getting widespread coverage, and very little of it is good for the administration. Yes, there was a poorly written AP story that seemed to swallow Bush's line about keeping the public informed, but it's hard to believe any but the densest of his supporters would give credence to this crap.

Then, there's been the immigration story. Despite Bush's attempts to pin this on Harry Reid, the brunt of the complaining seems to falling on the Republicans in Congress and secondarily on the President himself.

Then, too, there's the New Hampshire phone jamming story, which looks as though it may heat up. Scott Sheilds has these observations over at MyDD:

Couple this with Josh Marshall's assertion that TPM's "reporting (and, from what we can tell, the DOJ's too) strongly suggests there's a nexus between the phone-jamming case and the Abramoff scandal," and this story gets even hotter. The national Republican Party has provided millions of dollars in legal fees to protect Tobin, indicating that they have had a serious stake in making sure the truth about what really happened in New Hampshire in 2002 does not come out.

Republican corruption is a huge knot that ties together their entire party. Until it's untangled, I'm afraid that voters will be left scratching their heads, trying to make sense of it all, without really understanding the connections. But it seems to me that this developing story could go a long way in answering at least a few questions.

All in all, not a good few days at all for Bush. I can't wait for the next round of polling after all this begins to sink in. The man is already at his all time lows and still falling.

But, beware of the wounded beast.